History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Time 3
History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Time 3
William Whewell
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It is ob- served that Homer, who deacribus the wounds which arc inflicted In bis battles with so mucb apparent anatomical precision, nowhere employs the word mfisck^ And even Ilippocrates of Cos, the mosl celcbnitod physician of antiquity, is held to have had no distinct conception of such an organ'. He always employs the word Ji^sh when he means 7uusde, and thu first explauatlou of the latter wi»cd {fAVi) occurs in a spurious work ascribed to him. For nerves, sinews, ligaments', he uses indisc...rimi- nately the same terms; (rtrvuv or nvpov'^ and of these nerves {i^vpu) he asserts that they contract the limlia. Nor do we find much morn distinctncra on this subject even in Aristotle, a generation or two later. " The origin of the i^Zfyu^' he says', •* is from the heart; they connect the bones, and sui^ roimd the joints/' It is clear that be means here the muscles, and therefore it is with injustice that he has been accused oJ' the gross errour of deriving the nerves Irom the heart. And he is held to have really iia
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